You’ve gotta love snopes.com – that quick, at-your-fingertips method of filtering out those questionable e-mails you receive (especially during campaigning season). But you’ve also gotta read the entire snopes entry…
A recent candy warning has been flying around the Internet claiming that Pirate’s Gold Milk Chocolate Coins contain melamine and are being recalled. The e-mail counsels parents to check their children’s Halloween candy carefully (good advice!) and “DO NOT LET THEM EAT THE PIRATE COINS.” It then refers to snopes.com as having verified the recall. But the snopes.com entry points out that none of the chocolate coins were sold in the U.S.
Read the full snopes entry here.

October 30th, 2008 | Category: Metro Parent